Greece Company & Owner Directory
Company register search for 1.6M+ Greece companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Greece company register data is public on the ΓΕΜΗ (Γενικό Εμπορικό Μητρώο, General Commercial Registry). Beneficial ownership sits on a separate filing, the Κεντρικό Μητρώο Πραγματικών Δικαιούχων (Central Register of Beneficial Owners), accessed through gov.gr under Law 4557/2018, at a threshold above 25% of capital or voting rights — and where no individual meets that threshold, senior management such as the CEO is registered as beneficial owner by default. No longer fully: public access was suspended following the EU's Court of Justice ruling of 22 November 2022, and a legitimate-interest access regime now applies instead. Companies must register beneficial owners within 60 days of tax registration or any later change, keeping the filing close to real time.
Greece beneficial ownership guideTop Companies in Greece
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for Greece, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about Greece
Greece’s central company register, GEMI (Genιkó Empοrikó Mηtrőo), is operated in an unusual split structure: the General Secretariat of Commerce within the Ministry of Development sets the legal framework, while actual registration is carried out by the GEMI departments of Greece’s regional Chambers of Commerce, coordinated through the Central Union of Chambers of Greece via a One-Stop-Shop service, with public search available at businessportal.gr. A 2025 enforcement push, Joint Ministerial Decision 46982/2025, introduced a structured fine schedule — up to €100,000 — for outdated or non-compliant GEMI filings, with a correction deadline extended to January 31, 2026 and fines being actively imposed from the start of that year.
Greece’s Central UBO Registry, operative since January 30, 2019, suspended public access on December 1, 2022 in response to the CJEU’s ruling that year against unrestricted public beneficial-ownership access, restricting it since then to competent authorities, obliged entities performing due diligence, and parties demonstrating a legitimate interest. The EU’s 6th AML Directive formally replaced the invalidated public-access model with this legitimate-interest framework, requiring transposition of its access rules by July 10, 2025 — a deadline Greece missed, placing it among 11 member states against which the European Commission opened infringement proceedings for failing to notify transposition, meaning the country’s specific legitimate-interest access procedure remains formally incomplete as of this writing.
Greece company base, broken down
Charts render from live counts. Where coverage is partial, the excluded population is stated on the chart.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file. Entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Enterprises by size category
2023 figures for Greece’s non-financial business economy: 94.7% of enterprises were micro (under 10 employees), 4.8% small, 0.5% medium, and 0.1% large (250+ employees) — a complete size-class breakdown covering roughly 780,630 SMEs plus 476 large enterprises. Source: European Commission SME Performance Review, Greece Country Fact Sheet 2024 (2023 data).
Foreign-controlled entities
Foreign-controlled enterprises represented less than 1.0% of all Greek businesses by entity count in 2023, yet accounted for 8% of employment and roughly 17.7–18% of value added in the business economy — both below the EU average of about 15% and 24% respectively — with 78.3% of these foreign-controlled enterprises ultimately controlled by an EU-based parent and 21.7% from outside the EU.
Who uses Greece ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a Greece counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Only 69 Greece entities have digitized accounts on file, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
Get complete shareholder and officer records, ultimate beneficial owner resolution, and ongoing ownership monitoring for Greece companies — via API or a bulk data feed.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many companies does Zavia have on record for Greece?
Zavia holds 1.6M+ company records for Greece, of which 942,534 (59%) are currently active on the register.
Is beneficial ownership (UBO) data public in Greece?
Greece company register data is public on the ΓΕΜΗ (Γενικό Εμπορικό Μητρώο, General Commercial Registry). Beneficial ownership sits on a separate filing, the Κεντρικό Μητρώο Πραγματικών Δικαιούχων (Central Register of Beneficial Owners), accessed through gov.gr under Law 4557/2018, at a threshold above 25% of capital or voting rights — and where no individual meets that threshold, senior management such as the CEO is registered as beneficial owner by default. No longer fully: public access was suspended following the EU's Court of Justice ruling of 22 November 2022, and a legitimate-interest access regime now applies instead. Companies must register beneficial owners within 60 days of tax registration or any later change, keeping the filing close to real time.
Does Zavia have shareholder and group structure data for Greece companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 263,977 shareholder records for Greece companies, with 139,284 ultimate parent relationships resolved for group-structure and ownership-chain mapping.
Does Zavia have director and officer data for Greece companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 1.3M+ officer and director records for Greece companies, sourced directly from the same official register as the company's own filing.
Does Zavia have VAT registration data for Greece companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 1.4M+ VAT records for Greece companies, linked to the same registered entity as its company profile.
Does Zavia have financial report data for Greece companies?
Yes. Zavia holds 69 digitized financial reports for Greece companies, available through Zavia's enriched company data for verified users.
Can I access Greece's company data through an API?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including Greece, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Where can I read more about how UBO verification works in Greece?
Zavia's Greece beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.